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Thaksin Shinawatra

EXCLUSIVE: FAKE FOREIGN LAWYERS TRY TO CASH IN ON SHINAWATRA’S FROZEN BILLIONS

BUT THEY BLEW IT ALL IN A PATTAYA ‘SHORT-TIME’ BAR A STORY OF LOW LIFE SCAMMERS IN SLEAZY BARS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA’S TWILIGHT WORLD  Thaksin in exile in Weybridge, Surrey, before he had to move on to Dubai Two Scots and one American posing as lawyers in Thailand have been uncovered attempting a scam […]

Thai Airways – Does Thaksin Shinawatra have a special interest here?

More and more rumours are spreading from the corporate offices of Thai Airways and yet again they involve former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra. Last month the airline was subject to the rumour that the company would be declared bankrupt this year – in May actually.  Chadchart Sittipunt the Minister of Transport, was forced to deny […]

Asia’s Hitlers

With the blockade of Bangkok now just ten days away an organization called the Network of Thais Overseas has produced a video to put forward the views of the protesters.  They may feel they are losing the propaganda war judging by criticisms of the western media. But they may be looking on the pessimistic side […]

THE UNTHINKABLE! WHAT IF THE FOREIGN MEDIA HAVE GOT IT ALL WRONG?

For some days I have been reading here and there how the foreign media got it all wrong; that is the recent troubles in Bangkok. The journalists strongly disagree. The message they put across seemed to say that a bunch of elites and people who did not want Thaksin Shinawatra, or anybody with the same […]

Thai Prime Minister Invokes The Internal Security Act As Protesters Lay Siege To Government Buildings

Bangkok Tense As Internal Security Act is enforced From Andrew Drummond Bangkok: A sea of anti-government protestors surged through Bangkok today occupying key government buildings and demanding an end to the Premiership of Yingluck Shinawatra. Anti-government protesters with a long list of grievances stormed into the Finance Ministry, Budget Bureau and Ministry of Foreign Affairs and […]

Is the Thaksin Era Coming To An End in Thailand?

 A Flying Sporran Comment: Exports are down. Time and time again the current government and its politicians are being accused of having their fingers in the till. The Amnesty Bill is set to whitewash among others Thaksin Shinawatra, the former premier now living abroad having been convicted of corruption and abuse of power. Government M.Ps […]

THAILAND TWINS WITH EUROPE’S CONTRABAND KING.

HAVE COMMON GOALS BEEN DISCOVERED IN NEW ENTENTE CORDIALE WITH MONTENEGRO – SERVICING FOREIGNERS, SELLING THEM PROPERTY, SMUGGLING, HUMAN TRAFFICKING AND TAX EVASION? -It was difficult to keep a straight face reading Saturday’s Bangkok Post to learn that ‘The leaders of Thailand and Montenegro agreed on Saturday to use the eastern European country as a […]

THAI ‘THOUGHT POLICE’ TO ARREST PEOPLE WHO PRESS ‘LIKE’ ON FACEBOOK FOR THE WRONG REASONS

IS THAILAND – ‘THE LAND OF THE FREE’ – FIRST COUNTRY TO SET UP ‘THOUGHT POLICE’? Computer crime police in Thailand have warned the public that if they click on ‘Like’ in certain posts in Facebook they could face trial and imprisonment. The message is aimed at people who might ‘like’ a change of government […]